Abuse is recognized as a salient social, public health, and legal problem.
Abuse is a problem that exists in both developing & developed countries (also family violence & sexual abuse, abuse of older people has been described in the literature for centuries) yet is typically underreported globally.
Certain studies as per WHO report that abuse can lead to serious physical injuries and long-term psychological consequences.
So, it's crucial to understand ‘Abuse’
⚪ Abuse - it's interactions in which one person behaves in a cruel, violent, demeaning, or invasive manner toward another person or an animal. The term most commonly implies physical mistreatment but also encompasses sexual and psychological (emotional) mistreatment.
Most reported are psychological abuse
⚪ Psychological abuse:
It involves the regular and deliberate use of a range of words and non-physical actions, it includes verbal, mental, or emotional abuse, typically refers to derogatory statements that cause harm to or interfere with the psychological adjustment of the victim used with the purpose to manipulate, hurt, weaken or frighten a person mentally and emotionally; and/or distort, confuse or influence a person’s thoughts and actions within their everyday lives, changing their sense of self and harming their wellbeing.
(We will talk about it someday in detail, it's very complicated)
⚫ How to protect ourselves from abuse and abusers
• Within the legal frameworks available in many countries all people have the fundamental right to enjoy the state's protection from all forms of abuse environments, mistreatment exploitation, and marginalization.
• One can contact profit/non-profit organizations, and government/non-government organizations that are working on such things.
• By being aware of this you can create some self-defenses by yourself.
• To heal from such things, you can talk help of mental health professionals, they would be very likely to help you. 😇
This was to make you aware of these things, awareness is the most important thing!
People forget that
abuse is damaging,
but its aftermath is permanent.
Your body will heal,
and so will your mind
but when things heal
they leave scars behind.
You owe no one an explanation,
a reason, a defence
for who you become after you survive.
-Nikita Gill
One thing I wanna say is if you are/were abused then it's not your fault, the fault is of the one who is/was abusing, there's something wrong with their personality.
In such things take a stand for yourself, and be the survivor.
Yes, there are after-effects of abuse but still one can recover, one can heal, and one can be stronger than ever because one has faced adverse things.
You can be strong, you have to keep faith in yourself, hopes high, and persistency maintained. -Anmol
